firefighter Archives - JDaniel4s Mom

Books about firefighters have always been a hit with JDaniel. Your children probably love them too. This fun STEAM activity for kids would be fun to explore after your children’s favorite books about firefighters. (If they don’t have favorites yet, you will find a list of ours at the end of this post.)

Getting Ready for the STEAM Kids Activity

You will need to gather the following supplies to put the climbing firefighter together.

- Plastic Orange Drinking Straws
- Twine
- Popsicle Sticks
- Tape
- Climbing Firefighter STEAM Activity for Kids Printables
- Cardboard from Cereal Boxes

Firefighter Decorating Supplies

Putting the STEAM Activity Together

Making the Firefighter

You can have your children decorate the uncolored version of the firefighter or decorate the firefighter that is colored in.

If the arms of their firefighter seem to need support, your children can tape popsicle sticks to the back of them.

Next, children will need to cut their straw into two pieces. They will then tape the two pieces vertically parallel to each other on the back of the snowman.

Then thread each of the ends of the cord or ribbon through the top the straws. That will create a loop above the straws.

Building a Ladder

Your children create a ladder for the firefighter to pretend to climb. They will first need to draw sections of a ladder on a cereal box. Then they will need to cut the sections. Finally, the can glue the pieces of the ladder together.

Once your ladder has been completed, you can tape it to the door or cabinet the firefighter is going to climb.

Making the Firefighter Climb

Children will need to place the loop at the top of their twine or ribbon on a door or cabinet knob.

They will slowly alternate pulling one cord and then the other with a rocking motion to make the firefighter rise up the twine or cord. It will look like the firefighter is climbing.

You can explain to your children that this is how a pulley works!

If you like this firefighter themed activity, here are some more you will love:

Fire Truck Craft with Flame Painting

Fire Truck Activity Sensory Activity for Kids

Firehouse Place Value Chart

Fire Ladder Learning Activities

Here are the firefighter books I mentioned:

Creating the Counting Numbers on Fire Hose Activity

The crafty part of the project is to create a firefighter that is standing sideways on a small paper plate. The firefighter I made is made up of a hat, a little hair (I didn’t want the firefighter to look bald.), a fire fighter’s coat, two small hands, and boots. Outlines were drawn onto the hair, hat, and coat with marker. This will be laminated to use with children! I didn’t laminate it for the picture. (It would have added a glare to the picture.)

The fire hose was cut out of a file folder. A notch was cut into front of the file folder strip to make it look more hose like. The numbers and hose outline were drawn on with marker.
A small slit was cut into the plate after the various parts of the fire fighter were glued on. I placed the slit in front of the fire fighter’s hand to make if look like they were holding it. The fire hose was then slipped through the slit.